The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-29
EXTREME PENALTY.
A Wichita Drug Clerk Violates the
Prohibition Law.
Fined $2O.S0O and Costs and to Lay
in Jail Seventeen Years.
Cook County Doodle Contractors
Have to Refund.
A Damaging Flood at Browns llle
and MatamOras.
The Business Portion of Sanford, Fla,
Burned Out.

WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 81. a.
Stewart of this city was yesterday SEN
fenced to seventeen years and four
months in the county Jail and fined
S20, 800 with costs of prosecution for a
violation of the prohibition law. He
was a clerk in west end drug store
and pleaded guilty to the indictment
containing 1850 counts at the same
time as did Herman, proprietor of the
place. The latter cannot be found and
it is thought that he has left the cOun-
try. The punishment imposed upon
Stewart is the heaviest ever given in
the state for violation of the liquor
laws.
REIMBURSING THE COUNTY.
CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-EIisha A. Rob
inson, wholesale grocer, whose testi-
mony was of great value to the state in
the Doodle case, made restitution to
Cook county Yesterday by handing over
the sum of SIS 900. This sum makes
the county whole on account of the
commissions paid by him to the Doodle
ring and his own profits from short
weights and measures on goods deliv-
cred at the insane asylum, infirmary
and hospital. Several small contrac-
tors called on Mr.. Grinnen yesterday
and figured out what they will have to
refund.
BARBED WIRE MILL BURNED.
JOLIET. H., Sept. 2S:-A large barb
wire mill owned by Fish & Connell,
pany, caught fire last night and was
destroyed. Loss $25, 900, insured.
ANOTHER REPORT.
CHICAGO, Sept. ga Browns
vile special gives a full ac-
count of a fearful storm there
and at MatamOras. The damage in
that section is estimated at a million
dollars. In Brownsville seventy small
houses were blown down and three
hundred others partially unroofed and
rendered untenable. At Matamoras
and between hundred and fifty and
two hundred small houses were pros
trated, while four to five hundred 9TH
ers are unroofed. In the country on
the American side of the river meal
able dumage was done. Countless
numbers of cattle and sheep have been
lost and the crops of cotton, corn and
sugar cane are completely FRUSTRATED
and destroyed.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
New YORK, Sept. pa Jackson
vile, Fla, special says: Fire broke out
in bakery in Sanford yesterday morn
the entire business portion of the town.
The following are among the business
houses burned: Max Myerson, dry
goods; s. Z. Adams, wholesale grocer;
c. Demont & George Allen, bakery;
A. Chaires, drugs; Bench, dry goods;
Barrett, gun store; j. s. Vandibre,
groceries; H. Z. DeForest, furniture;
E. G. Parkhurst, dry goods; T. NJ. Nc
Rae, drugs; H. B: Lord, jewelry; Brum-
ley s. Harrison, hardware; TOmlinson
& Co., wholesale grocers: NJ. S. Brown,
s. Co., wholesale grocers; G. j. Jones,
saloon; w. J. Hill, sash, doors and
blinds; Teahen hotel; w. Letter, gro
ceries; E. Simon, general store; Buck
baum, general store; Robinson, gro
ceries. The damage is estimated at
$500, 900, with very little insurance.
A TERRIBLE FIRE.
GRAvENHURsT. Ont, Sept. ga
terrible fire broke out here late last
evening which bids fair to wipe the
town out of existence. All efforts to
check or sundue the flames have
proved uDavailing. The Orilla fire
brigade is on its way to the towns
assistance.
A LONG STRIKE PREDICTED.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Sept. 22.-There
is every prospect that the strike OF coal
miners in the Lehigh region will be an
obstinate and protracted one. The
outlook on the miners side of the trou-
bic is for long continuance of suspen-
sion. They are taking their tools from
the mines as fast as they are allowed
to enter and get them. Hungarians
in Panther Creek Valley have applied
cars to load their tools so they might
leave the region altogether. On the
side of the operators there is said to be
some signs of weakening. Several of
the smaller companies have asked their
men not to leave the region at present,
and one or two individual operators,
who cannot stand the loss incurred by
their collieries standing idle, are said
to be ready to give an advance, but are
restrained by others. A number of
companies and operators in the Schuyl-
kill region have signified, by written
communication, their desire to resume
work at their collieries under the same
agreement as the Philadelphia & Read
ing Coal and Iron company. AS yet
not a word has been spoken of resump-
ton in the Lehigh region where 2, 900
men are still out.
CoNFEssEs HIS GUILT.
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 22.-Jack De-
boZe, a negro arrested on suspicion of
numbering the Voolfolk family at Can
ton, has confessed his guilt: His mo
ment by Captain Voolfolk. Deboze
claims that he did not actually kill
the people, but that three negro ac-
completes entered the house and COM
mitted the butchery, while DeboZe
watched outside. He says he saw
Voolfolk Jump from window and run
for his life. Tom, who has been under
arrest for the crime, will doubtless be
released.
SHOT AT A DANCE.
CLINTON, Mo-, Sept. Cat a dance
at the residence of w. L. Powell given
by H. B. Mitchell, James Atkins was
he and Mitchell. Notwithstanding
this he put in an appearance at O'Clock
and Mitchell believed his intention tC
be to break up the party. With this
idea he ordered Atkins from the
premises and on his refusing to q
knocked him down. Atkins drew q
revolver, but. Mitchell got the droI
on him and drove him from the house
AS the two stepped into the darl
yard Atkins made a false move ans
! Mitchell shot him dead. Mitchell
surrendered himself to the authorities
A MURDERER's CONFESSION.
| CINCINNATI, On1O, Sept. ZIs|Omc6
| Weeks, of Louisville, came here las
| evening and asked the assistance O
the police in arresting George VII
liams, colored, on charge of murder
The man was found and locked up
To-day he made a statement that tw
| colored men, George Hood, from Co
lumbus, Miss, and William CharroIl
from Nashville, Tenn, came to hir
last February at Memphis and PFC
posed to do a robbery. He agreed, an
| they went to the neigh
boris house, and putting him o
guard in the road, Hood and Charrt
went in, killed six of the family an
came out with money and effects. Il
SAYS they went first to Corinth, an
then to different parts in Tennessee
where the jewerfy was disposed Of. q
! got nothing but pair Of pants and
pair of shoes. He says Hood is IN Il
Harrodsburg Jail and Charroll is pro
ably in Nashville
: GENERAL FAULKNER ARRESTED.
BUFFALO. n. Y, Sept. 2l.-Ge
Lester B. Faulkner was arrested
DauyiIIe last night, and brought